I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it